"Principles heretofore unknown, signifying the emergence of a new era in creative work - an era of purely artistic achievements. An era of the final emancipation of the Great Art of Painting from Literary, Social, and crudely everyday attributes uncharacteristic of it at its core. The elaboration of this valuable world outlook is the service of our times, irrespective of idle speculation about how quickly the individual trends created by it will flash by."
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Olga Rozanova, in 'Osnovy Novogo Tvorchestva i printsipy ego neponimaniia,' Soiuz molodezhi 3 (March 1913), pp. 20-21; as quoted by Svetlana Dzhafarova, in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932 (transl. Jane Bobko); Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1992, p. 477
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Olga Rozanova
Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova (22 June 1886 – 7 November 1918, Moscow) was a Russian artist in the styles of Suprematism, Neo-Primitivism, and Cubo-Futurism. In 1916 she married the poet Aleksei Kruchenykh and joined the group of Russian avant-garde artists Supremus, led by Kazimir Malevich.
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